Spacecraft platforms

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1998-07-02

2000-01-25

Eldred, J. Woodrow

Aeronautics and astronautics

Spacecraft

Spacecraft formation, orbit, or interplanetary path

244172, 244173, B64G 100

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060169990

ABSTRACT:
A spacecraft platform essentially having two or more panels hinged at the base and contained for launch in a fairing. The panels are hinged and latched in an open deployment and bear, for example, a SAR antenna or an interferometer. The rear faces of the panels are provided with stiffening ribs, webs and struts and carry elements of the payload module and service module which are normally separate structures on a conventional satellite.

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